Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Acts upstream of or within cell-cell junction maintenance and myelination. Predicted to be located in basolateral plasma membrane. Predicted to be active in plasma membrane. Is expressed in nervous system; sensory organ; and turbinate bone primordium. Used to study Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 3; PCWH syndrome; and neuropathy. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (multiple). Orthologous to human MPZ (myelin protein zero).